A women searched all over to try and find information about what childbirth really feels like, she would not find it anywhere. People she asked said that it feels different for everyone. She says: it starts out feeling like a long period cramp, then the cramps get even worse. It continues to escalate to a pain that is more than you thought, then if you get an epidural it stops hurting so much. She describes that there are many feelings going through your body but that every childbirth is different and that is just what it was like for her.

Key Takeaways:

• Women experience every childbirth differently, no birth story is ever the same.
• Some women experience the physical ecstasy of an orgasmic birth.
• Other women feel like they are being dragged down into the pits of hell as they give birth.

“If you do choose to get an epidural at some point, here is what childbirth then feels like: an orgasm’s afterglow plus uncontrollable leg shaking plus a weirdly cold upper shoulder plus feeling like you’ve had two-and-a-half glasses of red wine.”

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